Halifax skaters on board with new indoor park rolling in next month – Halifax [Video]

A new indoor skate park and community hotspot called The Hub is coming to the Halifax area in May, and skateboarders are ramping up for its grand-opening.

The new location in Dartmouth will be the first indoor skate park since the early 2000s. With the unpredictability of Nova Scotia’s weather, skateboarders say it’s been a long time coming.

Doug Morrison and Jake Parker are the two men spearheading this project and are the co-founders of Wild Things Skate, an environment where anyone can learn to skateboard.

But they say the indoor space they’ve been renting to give lessons has proven to be too small for the number of people who want to learn, plus it doesn’t allow for skaters to drop in and hang out.

“We’re maxed out for space in there and we really needed something where we’d have more room and have 100 per cent control of the …